"What I want to know is how did the whole world become unaware of the changing elements within their communities? Wouldn't someone have questioned these changes? "- Lindsay
While reading through Lindsay's blog, I stumbled across two questions (typed above) which I had been continuously asking myself since the start of Fahrenheit 451. In my opinion, there is no possible way that an intent reader of Fahrenheit 451 could apprehend the first 10 pages of this book without asking similar questions. What is amazing about these questions is that there is no definite answer. Ray Bradbury leaves the interpretation of how the whole world became so oblivious to the reader's imagination. Personally, I believe that the government "brainwashed" its people gradually. Day after day, law after law, society and people's ways of life became more and more constricted. In a sense, this same phenomenon is happening in our society. Every single day, new laws are passed, and new codes are created. As time passes, the laws which initially seem "alien" become ingrained in what we do and eventually become a way of life. After being influenced by Lindsay's post, I have since formulated my own question: "Will our society become as oblivious to the changes happening around us as the dystopian society that Bradbury created?
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